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New OMIM displays at UCSC Genome Browser

For those of you who may have missed the @GenomeBrowser tweets and don’t subscribe to the genome-announce mailing list, here’s my PSA about the new features of the OMIM displays in the UCSC Genome Browser, snipped from the full announcement. You can see the whole email here. The re-engineered data subsets are great. And also note that they are linking to both the NCBI OMIM (which is currently not being updated) but also to the new official OMIM site from the UCSC pages. For more info on the new OMIM site, check out our recent Tip of the Week on it.

Hello, Browser friends,

We announce today the release of our newly re-engineered OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) tracks for both hg18 and hg19. With the kind assistance of Ada Hamosh (director), Joanna Amberger and Francois Schiettecatte of the OMIM project, we have divided the OMIM records into three separate tracks:

OMIM Allelic Variant SNPs

Variants in the OMIM database that have associated dbSNP identifiers.

OMIM Genes

The genomic positions of gene entries in the OMIM database.

The coloring indicates the associated OMIM phenotype class.

OMIM Phenotypes – Gene Unknown

Regions known to be associated with a phenotype, but for which no specific gene is known to be causative. This track also includes known multi-gene syndromes.